Publication Date
Thirteenth/nineteenth century
Publication Place
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Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archeology
Subject
Wool and silk embroidered with metallic threads and cotton.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 78.5سم؛ العرض: 81.5سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
S.N.I. 049
Record ID
object;ISL;se;Mus01;47;ar
Library Location
Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archeology
Date
Thirteenth/nineteenth century
Notes
A piece of fabric with a fringed hem, completely embroidered in silver and gold. Its complex, symmetrical design is quite clear despite the complexity and density of the embroidery. In the center appears the Tughra, which is the seal of the Ottoman Sultans, surrounded by four clusters of twisted flowers arranged around a small circle. The rest of the space was filled with a repeating pattern in the four corners, which is the shape of a basket inspired by the Rococo style, surrounded by leafy, swirling clusters on a small stand with a bouquet inside. As for the pairs of birds next to the bouquets and all the large and small flowers and flower clusters that fill the space between them, they were arranged around the mihrab and executed. With metal threads. The tight arrangement of the design and the high technology used indicate that it is professional embroidery made by a workshop within a city. There is other evidence, as the design is composed of an inner circle made of tughra and a large outer circle, which may mean that the piece was used as a turban cover, as a special cover, always square in shape, is often used to protect the turban from dust, and the circle in the middle indicates this use, but this cover differs from the usual design in which the same design is repeated in both the inner and outer circles because it was made for use. The palace. The pieces bearing the tughra were originally made for the royal palace. The tughra has been simplified and distorted on this piece, and it is possible that it is the tughra of Sultan Abdul Aziz.
Sample Text
Friederike Voigt “Embroidered piece” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;47;ar
